Economics and World History: Myths and ParadoxesWe cherish many myths about our histories. Not the least of these myths are those about economic history: such as the roots of depressions, the causes of growth and the reasons behind nations' different stages of economic development. Paul Bairoch sets out in this book to demolish 18 such myths and to reveal generally unnoticed but economically important turning points in modern economic history. |
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... Third World trading area of this period ( i.e. Latin America ) , its trade with the Third World was less important than that of Europe . For 1909/11 , when 21 % of Europe's exports went to the Third World , the figure for the United ...
... Third World trading area of this period ( i.e. Latin America ) , its trade with the Third World was less important than that of Europe . For 1909/11 , when 21 % of Europe's exports went to the Third World , the figure for the United ...
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... Third World in developed Western countries ' exports of manufactures fluctuated around 22 % . Since 1984 , this share has declined and has returned to the levels of the early 1970s . This decline was due largely to a rapid increase of ...
... Third World in developed Western countries ' exports of manufactures fluctuated around 22 % . Since 1984 , this share has declined and has returned to the levels of the early 1970s . This decline was due largely to a rapid increase of ...
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... Third World ; good news for the Third World It may sound paradoxical or provocative to say that there is good news for the Third World in the fact that the development of the West was not due to exploitation of the Third World . But ...
... Third World ; good news for the Third World It may sound paradoxical or provocative to say that there is good news for the Third World in the fact that the development of the West was not due to exploitation of the Third World . But ...
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Were only the fascist economies able to overcome | 7 |
Was there a Golden Era of European Free Trade? | 16 |
NonEuropean traditional trade policies before the nineteenth | 30 |
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